Team Radespiel has returned from 6 months in Madagascar as of November 2017. Overall, the first season of the project was very successful and we are all very happy with the results. We captured or sampled many species during our time in Ambanjabe, Ankarafantsika National Park including sifaka, sportive lemurs, and mouse lemurs as well … More “Team Radespiel” Back From the Field

In the last couple of weeks Lounes Chikhi has been in Madagascar, mainly in Antananarivo, the capital, and in Mahajanga, in the NW of Madagascar. He met with Barbara Le Pors who is responsible for the field work and for all the students. He also met with our Malagasy colleagues who have made that project … More Lounes Chikhi is in Madagascar

Guillaume Besnard, head of the Toulouse INFRAGECO team, in the Evolution & Diversité Biologique (EDB) lab, opened a position for a post-doctoral researcher to work on the population genomics of Madagascar olive trees (genus Noronhia). The position was advertised at the beginning of the summer and we were lucky enough to have several very good … More New member to join Guillaume Besnard’s team in Toulouse!

At the IGC we have been using our internally developed program to simulate complex demographic scenarios, SINS (Simulating INdividuals in Space), to simulate scenarios of habitat loss and fragmentation and to study how these events may affect the genetic patterns of populations. SINS helps us comparing different explanations for the data that we observe in the … More SINS is around the corner

Guillaume Besnard, PI of the EDB team just came back from a mission in Madagascar. There he joined the team led by Barbara Le Pors and with the help of Emmanuel Rasolondraibe, Tantely Ralantoharijaona, Jacquis Randriamaroson, and local guides hired in the different localities, they collected samples from various species, including Noronhia (Madagascar olive tree), … More Guillaume Besnard is back from field work in Madagascar

Beginning of June 2017 The study site “Ambanjabe” in the western part of Ankarafantsika National Park displays a network of forest fragments separated by grassland and lavakas (erosion zones). It is situated on a plateau and therefore especially in the dry season, it is very dry and much less green as the vegetation in the … More News from the “Team Radespiel”

This summer two students, Inês Lourenço and Alexandre Reis, from the Instituto Superior Técnico have joined us at the IGC. As part of a collaboration between the Instiuto Gulbenkian de Ciencia and Instituto Superior Técnico, Inês and Alex will be assisting the PCG group with improving the performance of our simulation programs while gaining hands … More The INFRAGECO group is joined by students from Instituto Superior Técnico.